Integrated Circuits

Intel -  Intel Museum

1968 Jul - Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore leave Fairchild Semiconductor (Employees 1 and 2).  Soon followed Andrew Grove (Emp #4) [date, (2, 198)] [emp #, Fairchildren,  Microprocessor History]]

One of the "Fairchildren" of the late 60's. 

Noyce and Moore were two of the original founders of Fairchilds semiconductor division in 1957.

Fairchild - Founded by William Shockley (inventor of the transistor) that begain transistor production in the lower SF peninsula.  (2, 198)

- Memory IC's always had been technically possible, but they were about 10 times as expensive as core memory. (2, 195)

1970 - Illiac-IV (a parallel processor) uses 256 bit Fairchild memory chip (2, 196)

1970 - Intel introduces the 1103 (2, 198)
- 1024 bit dynamic RAM chip
- uses new metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS)
- used in calculators

1971 - Data General (spin off of DEC) Super Nova mini uses memory chips commercially (2, 195)

This trend marks the beginning of the end for core memory.
 

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